Following my awful foray into disc brakes with this build
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=157590 my plan was to continue to run it through the winter and maybe do something about it during the summer but the experience of discs is so unpleasant I looked at the costs and decided to pull the trigger straight away and go for this. I wanted an aluminium frame as if I decide to race I'd prefer to crash on one of these than a carbon frame and not know if it's broken or not. Plus the cost is affordable to replace as well. I know the price of this is at the top end of aluminium frames and not far away from carbon frames but if you crash on a carbon frame you really can't tell if it's been damaged and I don't want to ride a bike hoping it's ok. For me there are a few negatives on this frame. In particular the press fit bottom bracket, direct mount brakes which means they're incompatible with any other brakes I have and the increasingly common proprietary D shaped seat post that seems to be getting almost standard on frames. The hidden seat bolt is also annoying what's wrong with a clamp? The final negative was that the rim brake frameset is currently only available in this stealth black which I'm not particularly a fan of but it's not too offensive either and as it's going to be mainly a wet weather bike it's going to be dirty on every ride. I can always get a repaint one day or just put some go faster stripes on.
So here's the frameset and it's a 51cm model
And here are some basic weights to begin. Naked frame with just the gear hanger and under bottom bracket cable guide:
Uncut fork weight:
The basic build list will be as follows:
CAAD13 rim brake frameset 51cm
Campagnolo Super Record 11 ergo levers, rear and front derailleurs
Camagnolo Shamal ultra wheels
Chorus 11 cassette 12-27 and chain
Deda Superzero stem and carbon bars
Power2Max type s power meter 52-36 rings
Campagnolo direct mount brakes
Time RXS carbon pedals
San Marco supercomfort saddle
SKS bluemels mudguards
I have weights and pictures of many of the parts and I'll update gradually as I'm waiting for a few bits and won't start the build fully until I have everything but the plan is to get it build by the end of the month. If anyone has any specific questions or wants detail then let me know and I'll add everything to here. To be continued....
maybe I'm alone on that one 
but it seemed to disappear when they moved away from the white boxes in the mid-90s. Nice to see they've returned to white boxes again. 
